4399.18
Liability for acts of intoxicated person.

Notwithstanding division (A) of section
2307.60 of the Revised Code and
except as otherwise provided in this section, no person, and no executor or
administrator of the person, who suffers personal injury, death, or property
damage as a result of the actions of an intoxicated person has a cause of
action against any liquor permit holder or an employee of a liquor permit
holder who sold beer or intoxicating liquor to the intoxicated person unless
the personal injury, death, or property damage occurred on the permit holder's
premises or in a parking lot under the control of the permit holder and was
proximately caused by the negligence of the permit holder or an employee of the
permit holder. A person has a cause of action against a permit holder or an
employee of a permit holder for personal injury, death, or property damage
caused by the negligent actions of an intoxicated person occurring off the
premises or away from a parking lot under the permit holder's control only when
both of the following can be shown by a preponderance of the evidence:

(A)
The permit holder or an employee of the
permit holder knowingly sold an intoxicating beverage to at least one of the
following:

(1)
A noticeably intoxicated
person in violation of division (B) of section
4301.22 of the Revised Code;

Notwithstanding sections
4399.02 and
4399.05 of the Revised Code, no
person, and no executor or administrator of the person, who suffers personal
injury, death, or property damage as a result of the actions of an intoxicated
person has a cause of action against the owner of a building or premises who
rents or leases the building or premises to a liquor permit holder against whom
a cause of action may be brought under this section, except when the owner and
the permit holder are the same person.